Just because it looks like graffiti
As a general rule, I would say that anytime you see something that looks like it’s graffiti, but that includes a Twitter hashtag and what looks like a copyright symbol, you may be dealing with something else entirely.
Like this, which is actually an advertisement for a place where you could play ping-pong by day and listen to live music by night.
I don’t know…something seems horribly wrong here.
Austin, Texas
photographed 5.11.2013
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Posted on July 2, 2013, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, austin, austin texas, black and white photography, downtown, graffiti, melinda green harvey, one day one image, photo a day, photography, texas. Bookmark the permalink. 5 Comments.
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Nice!
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Thanks! I was happy to have noticed this scene!
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This is part of a venerable tradition of painting adverts on brick walls, goes way back. So that is interesting and pretty cool too.
Perhaps the venue is horrible? That would answer the horribly wrong part. But, to a certain crowd, the advertising would work. Importantly, it is bound to filter out all kinds of undesirable types that view it is only graffiti, like parent-aged people. Probably highly effective. And clever too. For a while anyway.
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I guess using Twitter hashtags is just part of the evolution of wall-side advertising. Someone probably already wrote their masters thesis on it, don’t you think?
The ping pong and music venue was part of the big South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival, and was probably designed to filter out all non-hipsters, no matter their age.
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